The Jubilee at Bovey Tracey: Tuesday will ever be remembered by the inhabitants of Bovey Tracey as a red-letter day, for it was on that day that the celebration of Her Majesty’s Jubilee was held. The day will be remembered for many reasons, the first, being that it was the first Jubilee celebration that has been held in the county and another reason being that the weather was everything that could be desired … (street decorations, church service and high tea at Parke) … The tables, which were abundantly supplied with those eatables which would make a substantial high tea, were presided over by the following: – Misses Pinsent (3, Christow); Kalloway, Sparke (3), A. Wilson, Marsh … (etc.) … The General Committee consisted of Mr. W. R. Hole (Chairman), the Vicar, Major-General Anderson, Revd. J. Pearce (Baptist), Revd. H. King (Independent), and Messrs. T. W. Wolfinder, Sparke, Tucker, Gervis, Pinsent, Sercombe, Bovey, Mann, Bond … … Mrs. Pethybridge, Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Barkall, Mrs. Pinsent, Mrs. King, the Misses Kallaway, Thompson, Bernard and Asquith composed the Ladies Committee, the last four having the management of the children’s tables. After the meal, at which upward of 1,000 persons and 400 children sat down … … (sports and games) … executing a painting of a little girl model before him … (continues) … …
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